Cover for cooking utensils.



No. 656,855. Patented Aug. 28, IBM).

0. H. PIMLOTT. COVER FOR COOKING UTENSILS.

( Application filed Mar. 12, 1900.

(No Model.)

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CHARLES H. PIMLOTT, OF JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALE TO JOSEPH REESE, OE SAME PLACE.

OVER FOR COOKING UTENSILS.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,855, dated August 28, 1900. Application filed March 12, 1900. Serial No. 8,303. (No model.)

To ctZl whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. PIHLOTT,

a citizen of the United States of America, re+ siding at Johnstown, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Covers for Cooking Utensils, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in covers, and is particularly adapted for skillets, spiders, or trying-pans, such as are commonly used on cooking-stoves, ranges, and cooking appliances in general, and the same maybe constructed of any suitable metal, such as sheet tin, copper, aluminium, 85c.

One object of the invention is to construct a cover or lid for ordinary skillets and fryingzo pans that will prevent the spattering of grease upon the range or stove top, at the same time overcoming the objections of tight-fitting lids or covers, which convert the skillet or pan into a roasting-pan or steamer. I

obtain this object by providing one face of the skillet with a bracket so arranged when supporting the cover as to permit a current of air to pass under the cover and over the contents of the pan or skillet, thus producing the desirable effect of browning the meats, 820., instead of steaming, as produced by numerous steamers and roasters with tightfitting lids or covers now in general use. The cover is further constructed in a concave 3 5 manner, so that the spatterin gs of grease and steam accumulating on the under side of the same will drip back upon the contents of the skillet orpan instead of being scattered upon the stove-top. The cover is further provided 0 with a handle of convenient shape and size to permit of its ready removal or replacement upon the skillet or pan. Furthermore, if desired the cover may be used in an inverted position, thereby making a comparatively- 5 tight lid or cover.

A further object of the invention is to conforming a part of this specification, and

wherein like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is aside view of my improved cover arranged upon a skillet. Fig. 2 is a crosssectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 4 is an inverted plan view of a portion of the cover, showing the corrugated supporting-bracket.

Referring to the drawings by referencenumerals, 1 indicates a skillet, and 2 the handle thereof.

The reference-numeral 3 denotes my improved cover, which is constructed of any suitable metallic material and is preferably formed in a concave manner, as shown, and is further provided at one edge with a handle 4. Secured to the lower face of the cover 3 are a series of supporting-brackets 5, which are adapted to engage the edge of the skillet for retaining the cover in position, and these brackets are so constructed as to permit the cover to fit different sizes of skillets and fryiug-pans for instance,as herein shown,being corrugated throughout their length, forming alternate raised and depressed portions.

It is thought that the many advantages of my improved cover can be readily understood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, audit will be noted that various changes may be made in the details of construction with go out departing from the general spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described myinvention, of said supporting-brackets consisting of a 10 what I claim asnew, and desire to secure by corrugated metallic strip, substantially as Letters Patent, is herein shown and described.

As a new articleof manufacture, a metallic In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 5 cover for Skillets or like vessels, comprising in the presence of two Witnesses.

a concave-convex body portion, and a series CHARLES H. PIMLOTT. of circumferentiallyarranged supporting- WVitnesses: brackets secured to the convex face of said EDW. HEUBACH,

body portion for supporting the same, each J AS. P. MILLER. 

